Notorious San Antonio killers

Compiled by Merrisa Brown, mySA.com

San Antonio is one of the oldest cities in Texas, so it should come to no surprise that S.A. also has a dark history of heinous crimes. Here are 17 killers whose crimes against children, city leaders and others won't soon fade from the Alamo City's memory. Source: San Antonio Express-News archives; Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Charles Barksdale/San Antonio Express-News file photo

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Robert "Beaver" PerezPerez was truly one of San Antonio's most notorious killers. While the Mexican Mafia leader was on trial for the murders of Jose Travieso and James Robert Rivas, he was linked to more than a dozen others — including the infamous West French Place slayings, for which he had previously been tried — by prosecutors, and sent to death row in 1999. Perez was executed in March 2007.

Charles Barksdale/San Antonio Express-News file photo

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Robert "Beaver" PerezPerez was truly one of San Antonio's most notorious killers. While the Mexican Mafia leader was on trial for the murders of Jose Travieso and James Robert Rivas, he was linked to more than a dozen others — including the infamous West French Place slayings, for which he had previously been tried — by prosecutors, and sent to death row in 1999. Perez was executed in March 2007.